Samuel Alito Quotes

Exclusion [of evidence] exacts a heavy toll on both the judicial system and society at large. It almost always requires courts to ignore reliable, trustworthy evidence bearing on guilt or innocence. And its bottom-line effect, in many cases, is to suppress the truth and set the criminal loose in the community without punishment. [internal citations omitted]

In his 2010 State of the Union address, Obama made headlines by denouncing the Court’s decision, saying that it “reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests—including foreign corporations—to spend without limit in our elections.” In response, the associate Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito Jr., who attended the address, was seen shaking his head and mouthing the words “not true.

the Supreme Court in McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010) added: “The right to keep and bear arms was considered no less fundamental by those who drafted and ratified the Bill of Rights.” For that proposition, Justice Samuel Alito, author of the opinion, referred the reader to five chapters of this book.